Thread: What type of fish?

THOSE FIRST 2 IN CREEK CHANNEL ARE TOO BIG FOR SMALL BAIT FISH ,MAY BE CRAPPIES HEADED UP TO MOVE TO BACK OR COULD BE GRAZZARD SHAD OR SO,A JIG IN THERE WOULD BE THE WAY TO FIND OUT MAYBE.SOME NICE PIC

The bottom one is what I'm curious about cause I ran into one of those yesterday but was too windy and was a pain to try to stay in positio. I know it's bait fish but do crappie hang around schools of bait fish like this or would it be something like sandbass?

my guess would be shad in the blue shaded pics, last photo would definitely be sandbass on my home lake. Seems 95% of the time the sandbass, are in long flowing ribbons or schools where I live.

Those are some nice pics marine181. What unit HB are u running and what is the software version? If you do not mind me asking?

Originally Posted by Bean2302

Those are some nice pics marine181. What unit HB are u running and what is the software version? If you do not mind me asking?

Thanks! I'm running the HB 999ci hd si combo. I just put it on 2 weeks ago and meant to check which software version I was running but forgot to.

I would say those are White bass. Especially the schools that are streaking like in the pics 5 & 6. That is a dead give away for whites. Not shad in the first 4 pics as they will usually school up a bit tighter.

Thanks for the input! In the first 4 pictures, I was fishing single pull with minnows and caught 1 crappie. A guy pulls up within 30 yards of me, sets up the spider rig and hurt my feelings reel bad! I watched helplessly as he caught fish after fish.

Could all those white dots be crappie?
What makes a crappie bite a spider rig over a single pole? Bait presentation?
We both were using minnows.

Those could definitely all be crappie .